Sound in New Media and Design Studies

Koray Tahiroğlu is a musician, researcher, and lecturer at Media Lab, Department of Media, Aalto University. He practices art as a researcher and performer of interactive music. Tahiroğlu completed his Doctor of Arts in 2008, with the dissertation entitled “Interactive Performance Systems: Experimenting with Human Musical Interaction.” He is founder and head of SOPI (Sound and Physical Interaction) research group, coordinating several projects with research interests including embodied approaches to sonic interaction, participative music experience, multimodal physicality in sound and interaction. Since 2004, he has been teaching workshops and courses introducing artistic strategies and methodologies for interactive music.

Oğuzhan Özcan is a full professor and director of Design Lab at Koç University. Özcan is specialized in interactive design education and practice. He is supervising a number of research projects, publications and book contributions relating to interactivity and design art. He was awarded a UNESCO Aschberg Fellow in 2003. Özcan also is consulting for several Turkish companies involved in interactive media design such as VESTEL Electronic Research Group, PARDUS, Operating System Development Group in National Science and Research Foundation of Turkey. His other publications can be accessed at http://oguzhan.ozcan.info.

Antti Ikonen began his career as a composer, sound designer and musician in the early 1980's. His work covers music and sound design for a wide range of different kinds of performances and works of art, including contemporary dance, theater, short films, radio plays, art installations and new media. At Aalto University, Ikonen is a lecturer of Sound Design and Music at Media Lab, Department of Media, and a member of SOPI (Sound and Physical Interaction) research group. Ikonen was awarded “Teacher of the Year” in the School of Art and Design in 2004 and 2010 by the student union.